Using a standard QWERTY keyboard to control a Starturn 5

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Using a standard QWERTY keyboard to control a Starturn 5

Post by TDIPower » Tue 12 May , 2015 21:38 pm

I've not done anything with my lathe in a while since building up the ATC again and turning a test piece. I think I need to adjust the height of the cutters a little but that's another story.

So far I have been running the Starturn using the denford tutor keyboard (infact it is an Starmill keyboard and I have done my own overlay as it is pre swappable overlays).
I found it very frustrating that I could only open/save files as numbers, so could anyone tell me how to configure the go file to run a standard keyboard and then how to control that machine using it.

I just want to see how I get on with it using each format.

Also is there anyway to change the default path that the DOS control program looks to for loading and saving files. I have quite a structure to the file locations on my network to try and keep them tidy. I do the designing in the house and have the PC in the garage on the network.

Cheers

Pete

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Re: Using a standard QWERTY keyboard to control a Starturn 5

Post by Martin » Wed 13 May , 2015 12:45 pm

It should all be covered in this post.

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2266&hilit=qdenford

TDIPower
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Hardware/Software: Starturn 5 (sort of running, I will get this done!)
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VR2 and VR5
Boxford VMC260
Techsoft 2d Design tools V1 > V2
ProDesktop
Fusion 360
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Re: Using a standard QWERTY keyboard to control a Starturn 5

Post by TDIPower » Wed 13 May , 2015 21:01 pm

Cheers Martin, Boy that was a long thread to get him going.

At least I will be able to play using the QWERTY keyboard, I had got the hand of the tutor for control it was just the filenames.

Is there any info on setting the default path for the 'job' files, I looked through as many of the programs/files as possible using notepad to see if it was written in them but didn't see it. There is a chance I missed it.

Cheers pete

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